Meet the latest Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes

Source: Red Hat Blog

Introduction

Earlier this month at Red Hat OpenShift Commons, co‑located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Atlanta, we had the chance to recognize a few OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the OpenShift community is a hero for helping contribute to a project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. They are the advocates and champions who make the community strong and successful.

OpenShift Superheroes are made up of:

• Builders: Contributing to the evolution of OpenShift
• Advocates: Amplifying their OpenShift experience and learnings through events, blogs, meetups, and more
• Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge across diverse teams, industries, organizations

Meet the superheroes

Here’s a look at who we recognized for helping to advance the community through their contributions, participation, and innovation. These nominations have been edited slightly for readability and context.

Larry Green (Neuberger Berman) – The Ambassador

“I’m nominating Larry Green from Neuberger Berman for the OpenShift Commons Super Hero Award. Larry has been instrumental in championing platform adoption across NB, implementing and managing a Kafka cluster on OpenShift that supports diverse enterprise workflows. His architectural leadership unified multiple vertical teams—spanning data, DevOps, and application domains—under a common OpenShift platform. Through collaboration, mentorship, and a strong technical vision, Larry has helped establish OpenShift as the standard across NB’s modernization efforts.”

Luis Duran (ABB) – The Advocate

“Luis has been our OpenShift evangelist within ABB and in the process automation industry since the beginning of our partnership. We would like to thank him for his work and trust in Red Hat! Luis has been advocating Red Hat’s technology stack (in particular OpenShift) within ABB, allowing Red Hat to navigate the complexity of ABB and enabling cross collaboration among different teams in ABB and Red Hat. His business acumen and understanding of process automation has been a real asset for Red Hat to make important business cases to further develop the product.”

Marcus Dobeck (PNC) – The Ambassador

“PNC Marcus Dobeck is nominated for the ‘Heavy Metal’ Ambassador award for enablement of the bare metal infrastructure provider in support of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Prior to this, PNC only had a single supported virtualization infrastructure provider for OpenShift. Under the leadership of Marcus, multiple teams were brought together to successfully complete a Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization MVP within the PNC on‑premise environment. At Red Hat Summit 2025, the PNC CTO requested a MVP of OpenShift on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Marcus was able to call upon the ‘PNC Hair Nation’ and successfully ‘rock’ the MVP.”

Michael Lewis (Defense Intelligence Agency) – The Builder

“Michael is the technical team lead of the DIA Platform‑as‑a‑Service program at DIA. He has successfully expanded the capability to be the agency’s enterprise‑wide container platform. His strategic vision and technical acumen has resulted in:

• Over 25 disconnected OCP clusters across six different network fabrics delivering apps where they deploy.
• Onboarding and production of over 80 applications, including mission (operations) and business functions.
• Designation as the enterprise container platform for DIA and support for DoD cross‑agency initiatives, including COCOMs and Intel.
• Mission‑critical support to several Tier 1 applications.
• Expanded capability to the edge, Windows containers, GPU hosting, and implementation of OPP components (ACM/ODF/Quay), enhancing a Zero Trust posture.

End results have been critical in increasing Red Hat’s knowledge for SRE‑ing production clusters, submitting several RFEs, and informing an OCP disconnected training plan for Red Hatters.”

Reynaldo Linares (Verizon) – The Ambassador

“Reynaldo is a jewel at Verizon…by the time he comes to us (assuming he even needs us), we know he’s deep in it and can explain precisely where he stands. He asks excellent questions, advocates OpenShift within his organization, and is an excellent customer to work with. It saddens me that he’s so talented because that means we don’t get the pleasure of working with him as often.”

Nominate today

Know someone who helps the OpenShift community thrive? Nominations are currently open for next spring’s OpenShift Superhero Awards, which will be recognized at our Amsterdam event on March 23 co‑located at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, and at our Red Hat Summit OpenShift Commons Community Event in Atlanta on May 11.

If you have a compelling OpenShift story you want to share with the community, call for proposals are now open (deadline January 12) for our Amsterdam event! Register for OpenShift Commons today.